Gallup released their annual state-by-state presidential approval numbers last week, and the results should have 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue very worried. If President Obama carries only those states where he had a net positive approval rating in 2011 (e.g. Michigan where he is up 48 percent to 44 percent), Obama would lose the 2012 election to the Republican nominee 323 electoral votes to 215.

Editor’s note: It is voters who turn out in primary elections, not random Americans called by pollsters, who determine the winners and losers in politics. If the latest news can be believed — and we have every reason to believe it — there is a conservative voting trend building, and its momentum is going to make it truly terrifying for liberals come November.